Emotional Gripping

Lena thought she had survived the worst of the war. But her heart and courage are about to be tested again. 1946, Cyprus. After surviving the devastation of war, all Lena Weiss wants is to leave Europe and start over. Yet her dream of a new life is soon shattered, as the ship that would bring her to safety in Israel is shipwrecked off the coast of Cyprus. Taken with the other Jewish refugees by the British Army to a temporary internment camp, Lena fears she has escaped one prison only to enter another.

A gripping historical novel about a daring escape from Nazi Germany. The courage of the siblings and their helpers is put to the test as they risk everything to escape the horrors of war. The responsibility weighs heavily on the shoulders of twelve-year-old Holger. Ever since their Jewish parents were deported, it has been up to him to hide his younger siblings from the Gestapo. When a bomb hits the hiding place, the members of the network hatch a daring plan to help them escape from the Reich.